Eden Prairie Book Club

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178578602012-02-15T22:46:53.163-08:00Eden Prairie Book Club"Certainly among the top three book clubs in human history." --Mother TeresaGavin Sullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612234548832060875noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17857860.post-90020692019181350342011-12-28T10:18:00.000-08:002012-02-01T12:48:16.792-08:00Next meeting: February 28, 2012 @ 7 PM<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Please join us for the next meeting of the Eden Prairie Book Club, where we'll discuss <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Map-Territory-Michel-Houellebecq/dp/0307701557/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1322017414&sr=1-1"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Map and the Territory</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Houellebecq"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Michel Houellebecq</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="bookauthor">.</span>  The book is available at the </span></span></span><a href="http://www.btr-architects.com/images/edenprairie-13.jpg"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">library</span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, or you can buy it </span><a href="http://product.half.ebay.com/The-Map-and-the-Territory-by-Michel-Houellebecq-2012-Hardcover/102966805&tg=info" id="f45a" title="RW&R"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">online</span></a></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> or at a </span></span><a href="http://storelocator.barnesandnoble.com/storedetail.do;jsessionid=8D1E9A034C58C494201D7F6EE7A28D3A?store=2048"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">bookstore</span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">.  The February 28, 2012 meeting will take place at </span></span><a href="http://edenprairiewest.dunnbros.com/"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">the Dunn Brothers on Eden Prairie Rd</span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">. Look for the table with the </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_Iraq.svg"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Iraqi flag</span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> on it (inspired by </span></span><a href="http://product.half.ebay.com/Ahmads-War-Ahmads-Peace_W0QQprZ44672072QQtgZinfo"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">the club's first selection</span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">). </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">The club meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month, for</span> one hour, at the </span></span></span><a href="http://www.mmarchltd.com/SDMhouse.html"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Smith Douglas More House</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://edenprairiewest.dunnbros.com/"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Dunn Bros</span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> located </span></span><a href="http://mapq.st/yZjjFG"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">here</span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">. You're most welcome to join us, whether or not you've read the selection--though you're encouraged to do so. Attending once in no way requires you to attend again; feel free to give the group a try as often as you like. </span></span></span></div><div><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="mailto:gavin6@gmail.com" id="i:pp" title="email His Holiness"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Email me</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> if you have any questions.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Future selections: </span><br /><br /></div><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">2.28.12 - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Map-Territory-Michel-Houellebecq/dp/0307701557/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1322017414&sr=1-1"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Map and the Territory</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Houellebecq"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Michel Houellebecq</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">3.27.12 - </span><a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/11/05/141992986/catherine-the-great-first-she-read-then-she-ruled"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Catherine The Great:  Portrait of a Woman</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Massie"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Robert K. Massie</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">4.24.12 - <span id="btAsinTitle"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candide"><span style="color: blue;">Candide, ou l'Optimisme</span></a>, by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire"><span style="color: blue;">Voltaire</span></a></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">5.22.12 - <span id="btAsinTitle"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Charles-Dickens-Life-Claire-Tomalin/dp/1594203091/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b"><span style="color: blue;">Charles Dickens: A Life</span></a>, by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Tomalin"><span style="color: blue;">Claire Tomalin</span></a></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">6.26.12 - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleak_House"><span style="color: blue;">Bleak House</span></a>, by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens"><span style="color: blue;">Charles Dickens</span></a></span></div><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="bookauthor">**</span> </span><br /><br /></div><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Club Lore: </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">2012: </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">January - <span class="bookauthor"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fiery-Trial-Abraham-Lincoln-American/dp/0393066185/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311880593&sr=1-1"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Fiery Trial</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Foner"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Eric Foner</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /></div><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">2011:</span></div><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><span class="bookauthor"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">January - <span class="bookauthor"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Sleep-There-Are-Snakes/dp/0375425020" id="fl18" title="DSTAS"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Everett" id="b:fi" title="Daniel Everett"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Daniel Everett</span></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><span class="bookauthor"><span class="bookauthor"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">February - </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_love" id="nwyk" title="Women In Love"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Women In Love</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/02/dh-lawrence-our-contemporary/" id="m1tf" title="D. H. Lawrence"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">D. H. Lawrence</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br /><span class="bookauthor"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">March - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Race-Wrongs-Remedies-Politics-Economics/dp/0742562867/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1286847161&sr=8-1" id="wvt5" title="Race, Wrongs, and Remedies"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Race, Wrongs, and Remedies</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/31524" id="ej1o" title="Amy Wax"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Amy Wax</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">April - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Finkler-Question-Howard-Jacobson/dp/1608196119/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1288152758&sr=8-1-spell" id="utr6" title="Finkler"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Finkler Question</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Jacobson" id="hwyu" title="Wiki"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Howard Jacobson</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">May - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Just-Kids-Patti-Smith/dp/0060936223/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1293841648&sr=1-1"><span style="color: blue;">Just Kids</span></a>, by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patti_Smith"><span style="color: blue;">Patti Smith</span></a></span><br /><span class="bookauthor"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">June - </span><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-jennifer-egan-20100606,0,6357049.story"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A Visit From the Goon Squad</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Egan"><span style="color: blue;">Jennifer Egan</span></a></span></span><br /><span class="bookauthor"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">July -<span style="color: blue;"> </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Parisians-Adventure-History-Graham-Robb/dp/0393339734/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1307126693&sr=1-1"><span style="color: blue;">Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris</span></a><span style="color: black;">, by <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/books/review/Wineapple-t.html"><span style="color: blue;">Graham Robb</span></a> </span></span></span><br /><span class="bookauthor"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">August - <span id="btAsinTitle"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Search-Masoud-Middle-Literature-Translation/dp/081560646X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271999071&sr=1-1"><span style="color: blue;">In Search of Walid Masoud</span></a>, by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabra_Ibrahim_Jabra"><span style="color: blue;">Jabra Ibrahim Jabra</span></a></span></span></span></span><br /><span class="bookauthor"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">September -</span> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mightier-than-Sword-Battle-America/dp/039308132X/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1309373245&sr=1-8"><span style="color: blue;">Mightier than the Sword</span></a><span style="color: black;">, by</span> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_S._Reynolds"><span style="color: blue;">David S. Reynolds</span></a></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span id="btAsinTitle"><span style="color: black;">October</span> - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/American-Pastoral-Philip-Roth/dp/0375701427/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1311880190&sr=8-3"><span style="color: blue;">American Pastoral</span></a>, by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Roth"><span style="color: blue;">Philip Roth</span></a></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">November - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/New-History-Early-Christianity/dp/030012581X"><span style="color: blue;">A New History of Early Christianity</span></a>, by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Freeman_%28historian%29"><span style="color: blue;">Charles Freeman</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">December - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Good-Soldier-Barnes-Noble-Classics/dp/1593082681/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311880881&sr=1-1"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">The Good Soldier</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana;">, by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Madox_Ford"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">Ford Madox Ford</span></a><br /><br /></div></div></div></div><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></div><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">2010:</span></div><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> January - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691142084?ie=UTF8&tag=bloggingheadstv-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0691142084" title="Amazon link"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When Brute Force Fails</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/22670" title="with Reihan Salam on Bloggingheads"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Mark Kleiman</span></a></div><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">February - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Man-People-Chinua-Achebe/dp/0385086164/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259175613&sr=1-5" id="jwal" target="_blank" title="A Man of the People"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A Man of the People</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinua_Achebe" id="b4rh" target="_blank" title="Wiki"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Chinua Achebe</span></a></div><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">March - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Emotional-Construction-Morals-Jesse-Prinz/dp/0199571546/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261538526&sr=1-1" id="i-zd" target="_blank" title="TECOM"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Emotional Construction of Morals</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/12885" id="a:yw" target="_blank" title="Jesse and Will chat"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Jesse Prinz</span></span></a></div><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">April - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Too-Much-Happiness-Alice-Munro/dp/0307269760/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261539221&sr=1-1" id="hy1c" target="_blank" title="Too Much Happiness"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Too Much Happiness: Stories</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkHtjACeaok" id="eids" target="_blank" title="Alice Munro"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Alice Munro</span></a></div><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">May - </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Education_of_Henry_Adams" id="s1u6" target="_blank" title="Wiki"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Education of Henry Adams</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Brooks_Adams" id="oq1d" target="_blank" title="Wiki"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Henry Adams</span></a></div><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">June - </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_jest" id="uoa0" title="Infinite Jest"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Infinite Jest</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace" id="b4jn" title="DFW"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">David Foster Wallace</span></a></div><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">July - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Somalia-Somaliland-Culture-Columbia/dp/0231700849/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267031570&sr=1-3" id="zx2e" title="Understanding Somalia and Somaliland"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Understanding Somalia and Somaliland</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by <span class="bookauthor"><a href="http://www.foreignaffairs.com/author/ioan-lewis" id="nf7:" title="Ioan Lewis"><span style="color: blue;">Ioan Lewis</span></a> </span></span><br /><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><span class="bookauthor"><span class="bookauthor"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">August - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Their-Eyes-Were-Watching-God/dp/0061120065/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273343293&sr=1-1" id="rcme" title="TEWWG"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Their Eyes Were Watching God</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston" id="fkxs" title="ZNH"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Zora Neale Hurston</span></a></span></span></div><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><span class="bookauthor"><span class="bookauthor"><span class="bookauthor"><span class="bookauthor"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">September - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691146489?ie=UTF8&tag=bloggingheadstv-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0691146489" id="o:58" title="IE"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Identity Economics</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/27930" id="b0r0" title="Kranton"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Kranton</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Akerlof" id="rj42" title="Akerlof"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Akerlof</span></a></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><span class="bookauthor"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">October - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Let-Great-World-Spin-Novel/dp/0812973992/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273343670&sr=8-1" id="kco1" title="LTGWS"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Let the Great World Spin</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colum_McCann" id="almp" title="McCann"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Colum McCann</span></a></span></div><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><span class="bookauthor"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="bookauthor">November - </span><span class="bookauthor"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Pleasure-Works-Science-Like/dp/0393066320" id="lpnn" title="HPW"><span style="color: blue;">How Pleasure Works</span></a></span><span class="bookauthor">, by <a href="http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/29090" id="azea" title="Bloom"><span style="color: blue;">Paul Bloom</span></a> </span></span></span><br /><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><span class="bookauthor"><span class="bookauthor"><span class="bookauthor"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">December - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Strange-Room-Damon-Galgut/dp/1609450116/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1286479404&sr=1-1" id="nbk:" title="IASR"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In A Strange Room</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon_Galgut" id="xmoh" title="Damon Galgot"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Damon Galgot</span></a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><br /></div></div></div></div><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></div></div><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">2009:<br />January - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Political-Hypocrisy-Hobbes-Orwell-Beyond/dp/0691129312/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1222058140&sr=8-1"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Political Hypocrisy</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/14577"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">David <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Runciman</span></span></span></span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">February - </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Gatsby"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Great Gatsby</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_Scott_Fitzgerald"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">F. Scott Fitzgerald</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">March - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Incarceration-American-Values-Boston-Review/dp/0262123118/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238003977&sr=1-1"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Race, Incarceration, and American Values</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Loury"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Glenn <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Loury</span></span></span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">April - </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_lighthouse"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To The Lighthouse</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Virginia Woolf</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">May - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Our-Lincoln-New-Perspectives-World/dp/0393067564/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235584016&sr=1-1"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Our Lincoln</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_foner"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Eric <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Foner</span></span></span></a></div><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">June - </span><a href="http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/stories/1146"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The White Tiger</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aravind_adiga"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Aravind</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Adiga</span></span></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">July - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/First-Tycoon-Epic-Cornelius-Vanderbilt/dp/0375415424/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241635369&sr=1-2"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The First Tycoon</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://www.tjstiles.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">T.J. Stiles</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">August - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Netherland-Vintage-Contemporaries-Joseph-ONeill/dp/0307388778/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241635220&sr=1-1#"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Netherland</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_O%27Neill_%28born_1964%29"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Joseph O'Neill</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">September - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cosmos-Hearth-Cosmopolite%C3%95s-Viewpoint-Tuan/dp/0816627312" title="Cosmos and Hearth"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="fymp"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Cosmos and Hearth</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://www.yifutuan.org/" title="Yi-Fu Tuan"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yi-Fu Tuan</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">October - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Minima-Moralia-Reflections-Damaged-Thinkers/dp/1844670511/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245950050&sr=1-2"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Minima</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Moralia</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Adorno"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Theodor <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Adorno</span></span></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">November - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Out-Sheer-Rage-Wrestling-Lawrence/dp/0865475407/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245951480&sr=1-1"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Out of Sheer Rage</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Dyer"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Geoff Dyer</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">December - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Chronic-City-Jonathan-Lethem/dp/0385518633/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261539484&sr=1-1" id="frty" target="_blank" title="Chronic City"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Chronic City</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG16kZ04cJ8" id="vmc3" target="_blank" title="Jonathan Lethem"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Jonathan Lethem</span> </a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></div><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></div><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></div><div class="post-body" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">2008:<br />January - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/First-American-Times-Benjamin-Franklin/dp/0385495404/ref=sr_1_3/002-7849987-6901650?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190835069&sr=1-3"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The First American: Benjamin Franklin</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A79584"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">H.W. Brands</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">February - </span><a class="new" href="http://www.amazon.com/Half-Yellow-Chimamanda-Ngozi-Adichie/dp/1400095204/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198730278&sr=1-1" title="Half of a Yellow Sun"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Half of a Yellow Sun</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/07/nemin307.xml" title="Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Chimamanda</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Ngozi</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Adichie</span></span></span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">March - </span><a class="smallBoldAnchor" href="http://www.randomhouse.com/doubleday/legacyofashes/images/Legacy_big.gif"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Legacy of Ashes</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/12/books/12besc.html?_r=1&oref=slogin"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Tim <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Weiner</span></span></span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">April - </span><a class="smallBoldAnchor" href="http://www.timeout.com/chicago/resizeImage/htdocs/export_images/134/134.x600.books.tree.open.jpg"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Tree of Smoke</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://www.kqed.org/arts/places/spark/profile.jsp?id=4264"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Denis Johnson</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">May - </span><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41kICzWyW2L._SS500_.jpg"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Your Inner Fish</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://pondside.uchicago.edu/oba/faculty/shubin_n.html"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Neil <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Shubin</span></span></span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">June - </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brief_Wondrous_Life_of_Oscar_Wao"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">Wao</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junot_D%C3%ADaz"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">Junot</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">Diaz</span></span></span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">July - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/0385516401/sr=1-1/qid=1209395752/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books&qid=1209395752&sr=1-1"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://www.jeffreytoobin.com/"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Jeffrey <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">Toobin</span></span></span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">August - </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_Stealing_Horses"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Out Stealing Horses</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Petterson"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Per <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">Petterson</span></span></span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">September - </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/books/chapters/0701-1st-kali.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Little Heathens</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://www.little-heathens.com/"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Mildred Armstrong <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">Kalish</span></span></span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">October - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sea-Poppies-Novel-Amitav-Ghosh/dp/0374174229/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219628869&sr=1-1"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sea of Poppies</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitav_Ghosh"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">Amitav</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">Ghosh</span></span></span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">November - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nixonland-Rise-President-Fracturing-America/dp/0743243021/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219628967&sr=1-1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Nixonland</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://rickperlstein.org/"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Rick <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">Perlstein</span></span></span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">December - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/I-Supreme-Latin-American-Literature/dp/1564782476/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1222057736&sr=8-1"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I, The Supreme</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Roa_Bastos"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Augusto <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">Roa</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">Bastos</span></span></span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">2007:<br />January - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/At-Canaans-Edge-America-1965-68/dp/068485712X/sr=1-1/qid=1168402720/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-6029568-1272068?ie=UTF8&s=books"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At Canaan's Edge</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/branch/branch-photo.jpg"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Taylor Branch</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">February - </span><a href="http://product.half.ebay.com/The-Inheritance-of-Loss_W0QQtgZinfoQQprZ52760225"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Inheritance of Loss</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/ap/9a91d72b-431b-463b-a82b-5fc9772f0217.widec.jpg"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30">Kiran</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31">Desai</span></span></span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">March - </span><a href="http://www.powells.com/biblio/0805080015"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Imperial Reckoning</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ehistory/facultyPage.cgi?id=39"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Caroline <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32">Elkins</span></span></span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">April - </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Anna Karenina</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Leo Tolstoy</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">May - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/New-Deal-World-Americas-Vision/dp/0674018745/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-1313918-8945454?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1172855629&sr=1-1"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A New Deal for the World</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper244/stills/zk91108r.jpg"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Elizabeth <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33">Borgwardt</span></span></span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">June - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Labyrinths-Selected-Writings-Directions-Paperbook/dp/0811200124/ref=sr_1_1/103-1313918-8945454?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1172864681&sr=1-1"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://www.ciudadseva.com/textos/cuentos/esp/borges/jlb.jpg"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Jorge Luis Borges</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">July - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hucks-Raft-History-American-Childhood/dp/0674019989/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-1313918-8945454?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1172865268&sr=1-1"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://vi.uh.edu/faculty/profiles/mintz.html"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Steven <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34">Mintz</span></span></span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">August - </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Lady_Chatterleys_Lover.jpg"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lady Chatterley's Lover</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:DH_Lawrence_1906.jpg"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">D. H. Lawrence</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">September - </span><a href="http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2007/04/20/02"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Mediated</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://www.mediatedtdez.com/"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Thomas <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35">de</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36">Zengotita</span></span></span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">October - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Breckinridge-Myron-Penguin-Twentieth-Century-Classics/dp/0141180285/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-4114831-0397440?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185816283&sr=8-2"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Myra <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37">Breckinridge</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gore_vidal"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Gore Vidal</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">November - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bounding-Power-Republican-Security-Village/dp/0691119015/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-4114831-0397440?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185816143&sr=1-1"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Bounding Power</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://bloggingheads.tv/video.php?id=331"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Daniel H. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39">Deudney</span></span></span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">December - </span><a href="http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n43/n217864.jpg"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40">Chesil</span> Beach</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://pr.caltech.edu/periodicals/336/images/Volume%204/04-15-04/farrell.jpg"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Ian <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41">McEwan</span></span></span></span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">2006:<br />January - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679722769/103-6651671-5532642?v=glance&n=283155&s=books&v=glance"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Ulysses</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://www.cojeco.cz/attach/photos/3a5f020eea9ea.jpg"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">James Joyce</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">February - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385507380/103-1688628-5357425?v=glance&n=283155&s=books&v=glance"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/history/faculty/profiles/Brands/H.%20W./"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">H W Brands</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">March - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/0684824906/ref=dp_proddesc_0/103-1688628-5357425?%5Fencoding=UTF8&n=283155"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Team of Rivals</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://www.achievement.org/achievers/goo0/large/goo0-007.jpg"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Doris <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_42">Kearns</span> Goodwin</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">April - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393058204/ref=pd_sim_b_4/103-1688628-5357425?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Rise of American Democracy</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/04/0517/m/7a.jpg"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sean <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_43">Wilentz</span></span></span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">May - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1586483005/sr=1-1/qid=1146336515/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-4203131-2379111?%5Fencoding=UTF8&s=books"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Friendly Fire</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://www.cfr.org/content/bios/sweig_lg.jpg"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Julia <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_44">Sweig</span></span></span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">June - </span><a href="http://a1204.g.akamai.net/7/1204/1401/05011913011/images.barnesandnoble.com/images/8970000/8975767.jpg"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Five</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeev_Jabotinsky"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Vladimir <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_45">Jabotinsky</span></span></span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">July - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/185984054X/qid=1141087220/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-2774000-5951916?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Missionary Position</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://globalcop.us/hello/1184450/640/_MG_9053-2005.03.07-00.34.06.jpg"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Christopher <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_46">Hitchens</span></span></span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">August - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0072565632/qid=1142028093/sr=1-6/ref=sr_1_6/103-2259698-6723065?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Unfinished Nation</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> by </span><a href="http://www.pbs.org/fmc/interviews/brinkley.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Alan Brinkley</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">September - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594200629/qid=1142028987/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-2259698-6723065?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Cold War: A New History</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://www.yale.edu/history/faculty/gaddis.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">John Lewis Gaddis</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">October - </span><a href="http://product.half.ebay.com/Honor_W0QQprZ51443566QQtgZinfo"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Honor: A History</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://www.jamesbowman.net/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">James Bowman</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">November - </span><a href="http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?qwork=4843785&wtit=on%20the%20road&matches=416&qsort=r&cm_re=works*listing*title"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On The Road</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://www.beatmuseum.org/kerouac/images/jkstamp2.gif"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Jack Kerouac</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">December - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Secret-River-Kate-Grenville/dp/1841957976/sr=1-1/qid=1159322572/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-1040668-2090430?ie=UTF8&s=books"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Secret River</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://www.panmacmillan.com/images/authors/main/1000562.jpg"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Kate Grenville</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">2005:<br />October - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786715154/qid=1129308884/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-2449353-0539841?v=glance&s=books&n=507846"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Ahmad's War, Ahmad's Peace</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Goldfarb_%28author_and_journalist%29" id="ol:0" title="Goldfarb"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Michael Goldfarb</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">November - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shroud-John-Banville/dp/0330483153/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273374606&sr=8-5" id="u17-" title="Shroud"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Shroud</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://www.askaboutwriting.net/banville%20john.jpg"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">John Banville</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">December - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/War-Trash-Ha-Jin/dp/1400075793/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273374765&sr=1-1" id="j:ay" title="War Trash"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">War Trash</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, by </span><a href="http://graphics.jsonline.com/graphics/owlive/img/nov04/bktalk1121_big.jpg"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Ha Jin</span></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17857860-9002069201918135034?l=epbcbook.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gavin Sullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612234548832060875noreply@blogger.com